Fumio Miyashita
Asuka
Kadokawa Records (Japan) 1985
L28P-1225 (LP) w/obi, insert.
sleeve : NM-
media : EX-/EX-(light noises.)
This is the 1985 album by the synthest Fumio Miyashita, who was at the core of Japan's first progressive rock band, Far East Family Band, alongside Kitaro and Akira Ito. Even post-solo career, Miyashita continued creating spiritually infused electronic music, incorporating Japan's religious views extensively. Despite the album's cover art potentially deterring interest, the content itself is remarkably exceptional. Inspired by Miyashita's dedication performance at Tenkawa Daibenzaiten Shrine, the oldest main shrine in Japan, where Haruomi Hosono also participated, Haruki Kadokawa was moved and commissioned Miyashita to create a dedicatory piece for Kadokawa's established Karuizawa Asuka Shrine. The resulting album, devoid of grandiose arrangements and developments, encapsulates a minimalist repetition of harmonic scales within a clear synthesizer sound, constructing a perspective-filled, spiritual synthesizer music throughout its entirety.
A1: 神都殿
B2: 平安の舞